About 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate have been stored in the Beirut port warehouse since 2013 and exploded today, shattering buildings and overturning cars on nearby roadways with a force felt as far away as Cyprus. The massive blast has left over 100 killed and thousands injured so far. How did the ammonium nitrate end up in Beirut's port? What we know so far is that a ship headed from Georgia to Mozambique in 2013…

In the past few weeks, several countries ran experiments to verify whether dogs were able to sniff out COVID-19 and the results were very encouraging as the accuracy rate was above 90%. Even better, Dubai was among the first countries to dispatch these dogs for on-airport rapid COVID-19 testing. Lebanon's health minister/poet hinted in an interview yesterday that they're considering deploying dogs as well at the airport, following a Lebanese-French study and he insisted here…